Abbreviations for
Patriot Service Ranks

1LT—1st Lieutenant
CAPT—Captain
COL—Colonel
CPL—Corporal
ENS—Ensign
LCOL—Lieutenant
     Colonel
LT—Lieutenant
MAJ—Major
PS—Patriotic Service
PVT—Private
SGT—Sergeant
SOL—Soldier

Patriot Ancestors

Listed below are the names of ancestors and states of service of the James Hunter Chapter, NSDAR, members. This list includes Patriots of the American Revolution who contributed to independence through military, civil, or patriotic service.

Connecticut

  • Amos Hitchcock, CPL

Georgia

  • John Adam Treutlen, CAPT

Massachusetts

  • Asa Harris, PVT

Maryland

  • Basil Gaither, CAPT
  • Johann Heinrich (Henry) Stoffel , PS

New Jersey

  • Absalom Bonham, CAPT
  • Peter Haynes, NCO

New York

  • George Getman, Sr., SOL
  • Stephen Ryerson, PVT

North Carolina

  • Valentine Allen, PS
  • Samuel Arnold, PS
  • John Badgett, PVT
  • William Fleming Bailey, SOL
  • Joseph Banner, PVT
  • Johann Christian Bodenhamier, PS
  • James Bonner, Sr., COL
  • Samuel Bracken, PVT
  • Johann Anton Castner, PVT
  • Elisha Charles, PS
  • William Chenault, PS
  • Lambert Clayton, SGT
  • William Coltrane, PS
  • James Davis, Sr., PVT
  • James Dix (Dicks), PS
  • Peter Dix (Dicks), PS
  • Michael Easter, PVT
  • Samuel Gann, PVT
  • William Heggie, PS
  • Robert Hill, CAPT
  • James Hunter, MAJ
  • Alexander Joyce, PS
  • Elijah Joyce, PVT
  • George Joyce, PVT
  • James Joyce, SOL
  • John Possum Joyce, SGT
  • William Kellam, PS
  • Thomas Knight, PS
  • James Larimore, SGT
  • John Lawson, PS
  • Robert Mabie (Mabe), SOL
  • James Martin, COL
  • Benjamin May, MAJ
  • Charles McAnally, CAPT
  • Mary McCollum, PS
  • Hardy Reddick, PS
  • Thomas Roberts, SGT
  • Drury Smith, PS
  • Joshua Smith, PS
  • Michael Thomas, SOL
  • Lewis Thomas, SOL

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North Carolina (Continued)

  • Peter Tickle, PS
  • Henry Tilley, PVT
  • John Tuttle, PVT
  • John Ward, PVT
  • William Wood, CAPT
  • Henry York, PS
  • William Young, PVT

Pennsylvania

  • Abraham Arnold, PVT
  • Jacob Bittenbender, ENS
  • Lewis Hyer, PVT

South Carolina

  • Lemuel Benton, LCOL
  • Jonathan Downs, MAJ
  • William Dunlap, PVT
  • John Fortenberry, PVT
  • Thomas Huckabee, SOL
  • Samuel McJunkin, PS
  • John Adam Treutlen, CAPT

Virginia

  • John Barrows, SOL
  • Francis Bourne, CPL
  • Henry Carter, PVT
  • Landon Carter, PVT
  • Spencer Coleman, PVT
  • Thomas Colley, PVT
  • Zachariah Collins, SOL
  • Nathaniel Saunders Crow, LT
  • Isaac Davis, PS
  • William Deshazo, PVT
  • John Ellington, PS
  • John Frye, PVT
  • Thomas Gaines, CPL
  • John Glenn, COL
  • William Godsey, PVT
  • Thomas Hampton, PS
  • George Fuller Harris, PS
  • Carter Henry Harrison, PS
  • Benjamin Jones, PVT
  • George Joyce, PVT
  • Edward Joyce, PVT
  • Opie Lindsay, PS
  • Joseph Martin, LCOL
  • George Oldham, 1LT
  • John Paine, PS
  • David Poindexter, PVT
  • Patrick Jean Porter, SGT
  • Joseph Richardson, LT
  • William Sands, PVT
  • James Shelton, CAPT
  • Thomas Sims, SGT
  • Francis Steele, PVT
  • George Taylor, LT
  • John Ward, PVT
  • Richard Watts, CS
  • John Webster, PVT
  • James Wheeler, PVT

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